Word: ubico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ubico used plenty of violence. His police and soldiers ranged the capital, threatening, killing. But the strike did not lose force. Day by day, like a fangless constrictor, it tightened its coils around the encircled tyrant...
Before leaving Guatemala for Mexico City, Ubico delegated his power to a military junta. But the people wanted real self-government; they had at least a chance to start their climb toward democracy...
After a week or so, the tyrant yielded slightly and fired his strongest supporter, General David H. Ordoñez, head of his Gestapo. The people were not appeased: they were after Ubico himself. At last, after twelve days, he handed his resignation to Congress, begged that his person and wealth be spared, set out for the frontier...
...unarmed, national strike drove President Jorge Ubico, Tyrant of Guatemala, from office last week...
...strike which overthrew El Salvador's Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez (TIME, May 29) set a pattern for revolt in Central America. Reports from neighboring countries revealed that plans for a similar campaign in Guatemala were already well advanced. Cleverer than Martinez and no less ruthless, Ubico clearly intended to drown any such movement in blood. In repression, his was a practiced hand...